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Slownenberg said:
$399 will be the max. This is Nintendo, not Xbox/Playstation. $300 won't happen sure. But I don't think anyone is saying $300 anyways. They could totally do a cheaper version less than $350 and a more expensive version $400 or a little bit less though. Let's not forget, Switch was rumored to cost under $260 in 2017. Everything on the original model has gotta be super cheap at this point so it probably is not much more than $200 despite inflation. OLED probably only costs a good amount more because of the ethernet port which I think costs like $30 or something, I don't think the OLED screen is a huge amount more than the LCD, so it's gotta be under $300 cost. If Switch 2 comes out with, for instance, a cheaper version and a premium version the cheap version could use LCD instead of OLED, and not have ethernet port, and a small bump up to say 64gb. Basically very similar to Switch except with $80-100 more processing power. They could probably make it for $300 or less, and if they've got a higher profit premium model and if the whole point of a cheaper model is to keep it affordable, they'd probably be fine only take say a $20 profit or so and selling it around $320 in order to make is very popular and make sure Switch sells well so that they continue to make massive software profits which is the important thing. We have no idea what they are making, but >$400 is not happening, and certainly $399 is not the minimum haha, that'll be the absolute maximum and only for a premium model in the case of different models or just a high end single model, but if they only do single model/version at launch it is extremely unlikely it will be $400 because that will lose them their base of people who want an affordable system. Nintendo does weird things sometimes, but they are an affordable brand, and they aren't gonna have a PS3 blunder where they jack up the price by hundreds. Whatever comes out will be more than $300 and less than $400. |
If Sony is selling PS5 for 550 USD they can still charge even 450 USD and still get away with being "expensive". When Switch was released PS4 was 350 USD. As long their games are there people will buy. People who buy at launch are mostly fans and gaming enthusiasts, anyways. They can price cut the hardware once the production costs decrease and they need to reach the mass market
I will bet 400 USD, but I won't discharge a premium 450 USD version with better screen and storage
